*** Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2010 ***

September 27-28, 2010 The University of Tokyo, Japan http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/s3/s3-10/

In cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN

=== Call for papers ===

The Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) is a forum for discussion of topics relating to computer systems and languages that are able to bootstrap, implement, modify, and maintain themselves. One property of these systems is that their implementation is based on small but powerful abstractions; examples include (amongst others) Squeak/Smalltalk, COLA, Klein/Self, PyPy/Python, Rubinius/Ruby, and Lisp. Such systems are the engines of their own replacement, giving researchers and developers great power to experiment with, and explore future directions from within, their own small language kernels.

S3 will be take place September 27-28, 2010 at The University of Tokyo, Japan. It is an exciting opportunity for researchers and practitioners interested in self-sustaining systems to meet and share their knowledge, experience, and ideas for future research and development.

--- Submissions and proceedings ---

S3 invites submissions of high-quality papers reporting original research, or describing innovative contributions to, or experience with, self-sustaining systems, their implementation, and their application. Papers that depart significantly from established ideas and practices are particularly welcome.

Submissions must not have been published previously and must not be under review for any another refereed event or publication. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, and originality. Revised papers will be published as post-proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.

Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=s32010 in PDF format. Submissions must be written in English (the official language of the workshop) and must not exceed 10 pages. They should use the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format, templates for which are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm.

--- Venue ---

The University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Japan

--- Important dates ---

Submission of papers: *EXTENDED* August 13, 2010 Author notification: August 27, 2010 Early registration: September 3, 2010 Revised papers: September 10, 2010 S3 workshop: September 27-28, 2010 Final papers for ACM-DL post-proceedings: October 15, 2010

--- Invited talks ---

Yukihiro Matsumoto: "From Lisp to Ruby to Rubinius" Takashi Ikegami: "Sustainable Autonomy and Designing Mind Time"

--- Chairs ---

Robert Hirschfeld (Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany) hirschfeld@hpi.uni-potsdam.de Hidehiko Masuhara (The University of Tokyo, Japan) masuhara@graco.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp Kim Rose (Viewpoints Research Institute, USA) kim.rose@vpri.org

--- Program committee ---

Carl Friedrich Bolz, University of Duesseldorf, Germany Johan Brichau, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Brian Demsky, University of California, Irvine, USA Marcus Denker, INRIA Lille, France Richard P. Gabriel, IBM Research, USA Michael Haupt, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany (co-chair) Atsushi Igarashi, University of Kyoto, Japan David Lorenz, The Open University, Israel Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo, Japan (co-chair) Eliot Miranda, Teleplace, USA Ian Piumarta, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA Martin Rinard, MIT, USA Antero Taivalsaari, Nokia, Finland David Ungar, IBM, USA